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The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong

Name: The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
Description: This Place argues that the uncanny valley is a flawed concept, since 'human likeness' is too broad and the supporting evidence is cherry-picked. It proposes that the creepiness really comes from how animated characters and robots move.

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2 HN users recommended this explainer2 months2021 score 2.5

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Recommended as a convincing counterargument to the widely repeated idea of the uncanny valley.

This Place argues that the uncanny valley is a flawed concept, since 'human likeness' is too broad and the supporting evidence is cherry-picked. It proposes that the creepiness really comes from how animated characters and robots move.

“here's an amazing video making a convincing argument that "Uncanny Valley" isn't a thing” (HN, 2021)

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@MikeLumos Jan 2021 Strongly recommends

on HN thread The “Uncanny Valley” and How Artists Have Explored It

As a counterpoint, here's an amazing video making a convincing argument that "Uncanny Valley" isn't a thing: [this video]

Convincing argument that the uncanny valley is not real.

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@Errancer Nov 2021 Recommends

on HN thread Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’

Slightly off topic but there is an interesting argument to be made against the existence of 'Uncanny Valley' – [this video] .

Argues against the existence of the uncanny valley.

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@kortex Oct 2021 Cites it

on HN thread Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion [video]

The uncanny valley is wrong. Or rather, it is a result that appears due to the juxtaposition of robots with different goal criteria. Turns out, when you focus just on the devices which try to replicate both human likeness and emotional relate-ability (drop all the WALLe style cute but abstract ones), it's pretty linear based on how well that goal of emotional affect is achieved. [this video]

Argues uncanny valley is an artifact of mixing robot goals.

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